{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080771.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080771.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080771.htm","text":"And a certain one amongst them\u2014a rich man, and possessing a garden of evergreen plants 1035 \u2014said: \u201cSince it is very hot, let us retire for a little from the city to my gardens.\u201d Accordingly they went forth, and sat down in a place where there were pure streams of cool water, and a green shade of all sorts of trees. There I sat pleasantly, and the others round about me; and they being silent, instead of a verbal request made to me, showed by their eager looks to me that they required the proof of my assertion. And therefore I proceeded to speak thus:\u2014\nThe text here is corrupt. If we adopt Lobeck\u2019s emendation of \u03c0\u03b1\u03bc\u03bc\u03b9\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03c9\u03bd into \u03c0\u03b1\u03bc\u03c0\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd, the literal translation is, \u201cpossessing a property around him continually rich in leaves.\u201d [The offer of this man has a partial parallel in Recognitions, viii. 35\u201338.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter X","type":"page"}